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M. H. PULASKI.

EMBROIDERY. No. 319,122. Patented June 2, i885;

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MORRIS H. PULASKI, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EMBROEQERY.

SPFCIFICLTION forming part Aol' Letters Patent No. 319,122, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed January 3, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mouais H. PULAsKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Phila-r delphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Embroideries, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to Hamburg edgings or embroideries and analogous products that are placed on the market in what is known to the trade as a web, which web consists of a piece of fabric of a given length having parallel rows or strips of embroidery; and the nature and object of my invention relates to the provision of means whereby the several rows or strips can each be successively and continuously separated without opening, nnwinding, or unfolding the web, all as hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference point out similar parts on each figure, Figure l represents a web of embroidery-edging connected together at its end edges according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a like view representing a strip of the embroidery partly severed from the plain fabric, parts of said view being broken away, showing the under fold. Fig. 3 is a View of an ordinary web of embroidery, illustrating the; prevailing way of cutting off required lengths. Fig. 4 represents a web of embroidery embodying my invention folded over upon itself over a core-board.

A is the web of embroidery; a, strips thereof; c', the end edges of the web; Z, the lower edge of the embroidery-strip where severed from the fabric; b', the edge of the fabric left after the embroidery-strip is removed. C is a core-board.

Vebs of the character described are placed on the market in lengths usually of four and a half yards, each web containing a series of parallel rows of embroidery, the number of which depends upon their width or depth. The ends of such webs are free and unattached. (See Fig. 3.) Consequently when a certain quantity of a strip is required it is separated from the fabric near or along its lower edge and the required length cut off. Say, for instance, three yards are wanted; it is obvious that this will leave aremnant of one yard and (No model.)

ahalf, and so on as customers purchase different lengths at retail. The result is, that upon each web there is left a number of short remnants.

I illustrate in Fig. 3 a web of the ordinary character, drawn at a scale of one inch to the yard, from which several lengths of embroidery havebeen cut off in the usual way, to supply the wants of retail customers, and it will be seen that there is thereby left a num' ber of diverse small lengths that have afterward to be disposed of at a sacrifice as remnants.

To provide means for cutting olf continuous lengths of strips until the whole web is exhausted, and thereby prevent accumulation of remnants, has been the object of my invention.

I will observe that my present invention is ,l

adapted for use and application in connection with the device for which Letters Patent No. 297,448 were granted to me, dated `April 22, 1884, whereby the lower embroidered edge of each strip is scored, perforated, indented, or otherwise weakened close up to and around the curves or scallops of said embroidered edge on linesfollowing the contour thereof; but my present invention is not confined in practice to use on said patented device. It is adaptable to any form or character of webs of embroidery-strips that have means provided for separating the several strips, whether on lines adjacent and conforming to the embroidered edge of each of such strips, or upon lines of any conformation upon the plain fabric above or below or between the several strips, and while I conne my description to application to the device patented to me, as aforesaid, I desire distinctly to be understood as not limiting myself to such application, but claim, broadly, the device herein described to webs of embroidery of any character provided with weakened lines for separating the respective strips lengthwise from the web.

In carrying out my invention I connect the end edges, c c', of the web in such a manner that the free end of the first strip appearing on one end edge of the web will be attached to the free end of the next lower strip on the opposite end edge of the web, and so on with each successive strip, thus leaving one end of the first strip free and unattached, and in like manner one end of the last strip free and unattached, as plainly illustrated in Figs. l and 2. The strips can be separated by commencing at either of the free unattached ends, and the desired length having been separated it is then cut off. Thus another free unattached end appears Whereat to commence anew, and so on until the Whole web is used up.

I may titly illustrate the arrangement of the strips as they appear upon a web joined at its edges ce in tbe manner set forth as describing a continuons spiral course from one free end to the other, and it will be readily understood that if the Whole were separated from endto end, (none being cut off,) say, of a web four and a halt' yards long, joined at a a', there would then be one continuous length of thirtyone and a half yards, with joints at each interval. of four yards and a half.

I do not limit myself to any special means for connecting the edges a a. It may be done by sewing, by adhesive substance, 0r by any ofthe we1l-known means for weaving tubular and circular fabrics. vAny suitable manner for joining said edges so as to leave the end of an upper and lower strip free and unattached will be within the scope oi'my invention. Of course a web of fabric joined as described may be packed on'a corefboard, as is customary, and it is by no means necessary that there be but two layers of fabric, as lshown in Figs. l, 2.

Such web, after being joined at the edges a', may be folded over a core-board into any convenient Width, and readily operated, Ias hereinbefcre described. (See Fig. 4.)

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim is l. As a new article of manufacture, a web of separable embroidery-strips having frangibLe weakened lines between each strip, joined at its two ends into one continuous band, and having one of the separable strips thereof at the top and bottom free and unattached, `Whereby the embroidery-strips can be detached from the plain fabric in one continuous length, as and for the purpose intended, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a web of l"embroidery-strips provided with weakened frangible separable lines surrounding, adjacent,an d conforming to the contour ofthe lower edge of each strip, said web being joined along its end edges its full length, except that the edge of one strip at the top and another at MORRIS H. PULASKI.

NVitnesses:

H. F. REARDON, Isaac VARNER. 

